Supply Chain Transparency

Aerial soy fields, Brazil Image credit: Coordenação-Geral de Observação da Terra/INPE

Trase

Trase is a data-driven transparency initiative that is revolutionising our understanding of the international trade of agricultural commodities which drive tropical deforestation.. Its unique supply chain mapping approach brings together disparate, publicly available data to connect consumer markets to deforestation and other impacts on the ground related to the production of commodities such as soy, palm oil, wood pulp, beef and cocoa.

Trase Supply Chains combines self-disclosed data from companies with customs, shipping, tax, logistics and other data to map in unprecedented detail the supply chains linking consumer countries, and traders, with places of production. This allows companies, financial institutions, governments and others to understand the risks and identify opportunities for more sustainable production.

Trase comprehensively maps supply chains of key commodities, such as Brazilian soy or Indonesian palm oil exports, providing a wall-to-wall map of the central stages of a supply chain. It already covers over half the global trade in forest-risk commodities and continues to expand coverage to new commodities and geographies where sustainability action is urgently needed.

Trase is widely recognized by market, government and civil society leaders as a unique and powerful source of information and intelligence. By bringing a new level of transparency and insight to the drivers of deforestation, Trase is catalysing targeted action across entire export markets.

Trase Insights provides articles, publications and analysis on the sustainability of commodity trade, written by Trase’s team of experts and partners.

Have queries about our work on Trase? Get in touch with Helen Bellfield, Deputy Executive Director and Trase Co-Director at Global Canopy.

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